We, the excited people have had better reasons to be excited than in the case of many other games. Rarely does one see hour-long videos explaining the game in great detail, displaying it in what seems to be an almost-complete -- or at least a very much working -- state.
Now we get, what, 10 minute videos, and of course when the marketing starts there'll be 30-second spots etc. And this is supposed to be a _better_ reason to get excited than a nearly complete walkthrough? 30 seconds of shallowness?
If only thirty percent of what was shown in the hour-long presentation floating about gVideo and MeTube is in the finished game it will still be one of the greatest games ever made, up there with the Sims. No accounting for taste though; some hate the Sims, others love it. It'll be the same for this game.
I know most of you have read this one, but as a service to our new readers:
The Art of Unix Programming. I read that one as a budding PHP coder; while very Unix/C centric (well, duh) the basic philosophies will benefit any coder. My code's not that good, really, but without the principles outlined in the book it would be absolutely horrid.
If the PHP kiddies would read it we would at least have properly indented code.
I forget; what's the official Slashdot position on ESR these days?
I didn't think they looked that weird. From what I have observed (ok, only in the movies) Japanese girls look kinda cross-eyed when they're focusing on you - or something less than a few meters away.
It might be they only cast slightly cross-eyed girls in the movies though, since it looks kinda cute.
I was impressed with the eyes on this one. Although the close-up photo is pretty low-res they seem to have gotten the iris right. I'm sure I would say otherwise if I saw this thing moving, though.
It's a shame that more and more stretches of Autobahn are bogged-down with speed limits, though. However, they are not the same kind of limits as other countries, and as I came to realise driving at limit+20 is the default, even for cops:) And when you finally get a three-striked white circle, well it's fun to drive only to see some truly fantastic cars whizz by you.
A friend gave me two points of advice before I went on my road-trip back in the day and that was "watch your back and front at all times" and "notice the warning blinkers. If you see them in front of you, slow down and turn yours on". Your wonderful tradition with signal upcoming queues and obstructions in this way saved my ass from a chain collision in one case. I've seen some people in Norway do this now, FSM knows I do.
And the "watch your back" thing - while ~160-180 Km/h is usually a left-lane speed, you do want to keep an eye out for those fine German-made cars coming up behind you in ~250 Km/h. Be ready to move your ass out of the way before they have to break for you, which is really annoying. If they start flashing their lights you're usually already too late:)
I wrote my new CV today. They wanted it in "doc, pdf or txt" - certainly a non-choice. Hello, vi! Other formats available on request;)
Mind you, plaintext has its pitfalls too - I'd hate for the people to discard it on grounds of "it looks like a mess!" because they opened it in Notepad...
You don't have to go mucking around in the BIOS, as there's no option to set. At least the MSI nForce3 shows the SATA disk as IDE as a compatibility feature. Don't know if that's MSI BIOS hacking or a feature of nForce3.
You see, when you're speaking to someone face to face or even over the telephone a lot of the information is contained in the delivery. Your body language and intonation help to create context and help the message get across to the listener.
E-mail, by contrast has none of this. Writing an e-mail that your audience will understand first time - both in tone and in content - takes considerable effort and skill.
It is possible to convey "intonation" in text - using italicised and boldfaced text. It's just a shame "normal" users don't understand the text-only _italic/underline_ and *bold* markups. Also, using descriptive phrases such as "$subject - this is imperative" and "$subject - can be downprioritised" is helpful.
The only problem I see - as you point out - is that people can neither write nor read a properly structured sentence to save their lives.
I would think that Bluetooth HID is a bit limited to be used for the purpose of controlling a robot. Most likely you'd need to create a Java app (or whatever your phone can run) to interface with it using a custom command set over the Bluetooth connection.
I should have clarified with "the site I'm currently coding", not my never-visited, almost-never-updated blog on Blogspot. It's an entirely different thing, and I am very aware of the stigma a blogspot.com address has. Just be glad I didn't use LiveJournal or MySpace:)
However, I'm actually effectively blocking IE users since I haven't bothered to send a different header than "Content-type: application/xhtml+xml" to IE users... perhaps I should?
The right technique to use would in my view be to code standards-based web pages without a single IE bugfix, and perhaps display a little banner on top (similar to the "we blocked a popup" notifications, no larger) with the text "Experiencing problems? See here" and a link to a page explaining why the site might look like crap when using IE.
I was going to write something long but why reinvent the wheel? http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/physical.html Martial arts are also good for improving concentration and awareness skills, in addition to a more balanced self.
I would think that the master and his very best students would be quite capable of tagging a fatal blow by missing by an inch or a centimeter. Like in the movies, "haha! If I had the intention, you would be dead now!"
I would think that, but I might of course be wrong. Some of the things I've seen (in international top-level Tae-Kwon Do sparring bouts) do support my claim, though.
Just one link, and Norwegian at that, but a quick Googling found German, Swedish and Finnish links as well as misc forums in English discussing this. It's no bunk.
Slashdot Mirror
My brain must have farted, as I wrote the tags correctly when in true HTML :)
since you're complaining about html you should be aware of the "and lt colon" and "and gt colon", < and >
like thus: <font>
Why, oh why did I just waste my mod points on someone insightful!
I don't know - in my FF 1.5.0.3 on Linux it will collapse/unravel randomly, and if it does unravel it just goes half a line down.
Managers.
Great point. What about
1) walk around.
2) shoot.
3) repeat until sick and tired.
The variety comes from all the different colors of keys you can find.
We, the excited people have had better reasons to be excited than in the case of many other games. Rarely does one see hour-long videos explaining the game in great detail, displaying it in what seems to be an almost-complete -- or at least a very much working -- state.
Now we get, what, 10 minute videos, and of course when the marketing starts there'll be 30-second spots etc. And this is supposed to be a _better_ reason to get excited than a nearly complete walkthrough? 30 seconds of shallowness?
Attention span... expanding! Must... view... action movie! Need... explosions! Fast cuts!
If only thirty percent of what was shown in the hour-long presentation floating about gVideo and MeTube is in the finished game it will still be one of the greatest games ever made, up there with the Sims. No accounting for taste though; some hate the Sims, others love it. It'll be the same for this game.
My expectations are high, but realistic.
I know most of you have read this one, but as a service to our new readers:
The Art of Unix Programming. I read that one as a budding PHP coder; while very Unix/C centric (well, duh) the basic philosophies will benefit any coder. My code's not that good, really, but without the principles outlined in the book it would be absolutely horrid.
If the PHP kiddies would read it we would at least have properly indented code.
I forget; what's the official Slashdot position on ESR these days?
I didn't think they looked that weird. From what I have observed (ok, only in the movies) Japanese girls look kinda cross-eyed when they're focusing on you - or something less than a few meters away.
It might be they only cast slightly cross-eyed girls in the movies though, since it looks kinda cute.
I was impressed with the eyes on this one. Although the close-up photo is pretty low-res they seem to have gotten the iris right. I'm sure I would say otherwise if I saw this thing moving, though.
It's a shame that more and more stretches of Autobahn are bogged-down with speed limits, though. However, they are not the same kind of limits as other countries, and as I came to realise driving at limit+20 is the default, even for cops :) And when you finally get a three-striked white circle, well it's fun to drive only to see some truly fantastic cars whizz by you.
:)
A friend gave me two points of advice before I went on my road-trip back in the day and that was "watch your back and front at all times" and "notice the warning blinkers. If you see them in front of you, slow down and turn yours on". Your wonderful tradition with signal upcoming queues and obstructions in this way saved my ass from a chain collision in one case. I've seen some people in Norway do this now, FSM knows I do.
And the "watch your back" thing - while ~160-180 Km/h is usually a left-lane speed, you do want to keep an eye out for those fine German-made cars coming up behind you in ~250 Km/h. Be ready to move your ass out of the way before they have to break for you, which is really annoying. If they start flashing their lights you're usually already too late
Oh snap! Wasn't that Peter Stormare? Hilarious!
I wrote my new CV today. They wanted it in "doc, pdf or txt" - certainly a non-choice. Hello, vi! Other formats available on request ;)
Mind you, plaintext has its pitfalls too - I'd hate for the people to discard it on grounds of "it looks like a mess!" because they opened it in Notepad...
You don't have to go mucking around in the BIOS, as there's no option to set. At least the MSI nForce3 shows the SATA disk as IDE as a compatibility feature. Don't know if that's MSI BIOS hacking or a feature of nForce3.
It is possible to convey "intonation" in text - using italicised and boldfaced text. It's just a shame "normal" users don't understand the text-only _italic/underline_ and *bold* markups. Also, using descriptive phrases such as "$subject - this is imperative" and "$subject - can be downprioritised" is helpful.
The only problem I see - as you point out - is that people can neither write nor read a properly structured sentence to save their lives.
I would think that Bluetooth HID is a bit limited to be used for the purpose of controlling a robot. Most likely you'd need to create a Java app (or whatever your phone can run) to interface with it using a custom command set over the Bluetooth connection.
The Military has the secret patent for that.
...wasn't CompuServe first?
I should have clarified with "the site I'm currently coding", not my never-visited, almost-never-updated blog on Blogspot. It's an entirely different thing, and I am very aware of the stigma a blogspot.com address has. Just be glad I didn't use LiveJournal or MySpace :)
However, I'm actually effectively blocking IE users since I haven't bothered to send a different header than "Content-type: application/xhtml+xml" to IE users... perhaps I should?
The right technique to use would in my view be to code standards-based web pages without a single IE bugfix, and perhaps display a little banner on top (similar to the "we blocked a popup" notifications, no larger) with the text "Experiencing problems? See here" and a link to a page explaining why the site might look like crap when using IE.
That's what I will do on my site, at least.
If you use the "Level 3" code, you effectively block IE users from your site, making it nonfunctional. Isn't that what IE-only sites are doing?
I was going to write something long but why reinvent the wheel?
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/physical.html
Martial arts are also good for improving concentration and awareness skills, in addition to a more balanced self.
I would think that the master and his very best students would be quite capable of tagging a fatal blow by missing by an inch or a centimeter. Like in the movies, "haha! If I had the intention, you would be dead now!"
I would think that, but I might of course be wrong. Some of the things I've seen (in international top-level Tae-Kwon Do sparring bouts) do support my claim, though.
What do you practice, then? Krav Maga or something?
http://forbruker.no/bil/article291156.ece
Just one link, and Norwegian at that, but a quick Googling found German, Swedish and Finnish links as well as misc forums in English discussing this. It's no bunk.